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Lilly Daché's métier
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millinery
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Word definitions for millinery in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millinery \Mil"li*ner*y\, n. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like. The business of work of a milliner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s; see milliner + -y (1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. shop selling women's hats [syn: hat shop ] hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner [syn: woman's hat ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At 20, he found himself in Paris heading Lanvin's millinery department. ▪ Two of them, mantua-making and millinery , he explicitly linked with prostitution.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 women hats. 2 A shop with women's hats. 3 The wares of a shop with women's hats. 4 The business and work that a milliner engages in.
Usage examples of millinery.
Fine Parisian Millinery indeed sat diagonally across from her, and little groups of electrified women made their way in and out its front door.
At last, they exhausted their knowledge of millinery and moved on to the dance floor, giving him leave to turn his body and survey the feast in front of him.
Fine Parisian Millinery like an explosion, bringing a head-splitting avalanche of French perfume along with her, the glow of nerve medications illuminating her eyes.
The business prospered well enough to eventually allow them to open a millinery and even to employ a clerk.
The woman glanced toward the back of the millinery where the stairs were.
Asking then for her, he easily made a beginning of acquaintance by be-speaking some millinery ware: when, as I sat without lifting up my eyes, and pursuing the hem of a ruffle with the utmost composure and simplicity of industry, Mrs.
After some skill has been acquired by the student of millinery, a round crown of fabric may be blocked by hand over a wire crown.
Bow-making is sometimes quite difficult for an amateur, while for some students of millinery it is very easy, but any one with patience may become quite expert in time.
For the center wrap a piece of tie wire around several yellow rose stamens which may be bought at a millinery store, leaving the ends of wire five or six inches long.
Mourning millinery is not used as much as formerly, but those who desire to adhere to the custom will find the style little changed.
They had covered up most of the millinery in the hat department, but, glancing swiftly around her, her eyes alighted on a grey felt.
She had eschewed gay colors and extreme cuts, and had her bonnets made to order, because there were no longer anything but hats in the millinery shop.
She had watched the fine ladies at the millinery shop and while selling cigarettes at the Ritzmore, when she had been modeling her manners, and had believed herself just as fine a lady as they.
There was a notice in the window that dress-making and millinery were carried on within.
And indeed she behaved very well, as Perdita, knowing her insatiable love of millinery, was quite ready to declare.